'Mother Has Arrived' is a new durational theatre show set in a gallery. Premiering in London this September
"By the time the wig comes on, Martha's presence is irrefutableWe must believe our eyes."Witness a lifetime in six hours: two actors, live prosthetics, and a mother's 84-year journey
Spanning 1942 to the present day, Mother Has Arrived is Than Hussein Clark's homage to his motherIt follows Martha Fuller Clark's life and political career from her early support of President Obama and Bernie Sanders to her pivotal support in passing gay marriage legislationThis deeply personal odyssey is told through real audio recordings and scripted fiction from within a specially designed vitrine where we witness the total transformation of a young male actor into the artist's Mother
From theatre director and visual artist Than Hussein Clark (Centre Pompidou, Art Basel, Frieze Art Fair), Mother Has Arrived presents actors Benedict Wishart, Lewis Blomfield and prosthetics artist Aurora Beadle in an intricately detailed six-and-a-half-hour durational performance
Mother Has Arrived makes its world premiere at Corvi-Mora Gallery in London for a strictly limited 5 week run from 4 September until 3 OctoberThis unmissable play can be watched in its entirety or in part
Mother Has Arrived is produced by The Director's Theatre Writer's Theatre, the resident company of London Performance Studios
Each show ticket will be an artwork edition designed by Than Hussein ClarkMother has arrived is part of two person exhibition alongside German conceptual artist David Lieske (1979) who is exhibiting a new suite of artworks in the gallery during the performance run
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Further information: 'Mother Has Arrived' is Than Hussein Clark's homage to his mother, Martha Fuller ClarkThe production details Matha's life from her birth in 1942 to the present day, navigating between biography and fiction through verbatim and devised theatreNarratives were extracted from recorded conversations between the artist and his mother, recently discovered recordings of the artist's father, and archival audio of historical eventsThe play is performed by two actors and one prosthetics artist housed within a uniquely conceived glass vitrine stage at the Corvi-Mora gallery in South London
This deeply personal story is revealed over the play's six-and-a-half-hour duration, as one actor gradually morphs into Martha now, aged 84, and may be watched in its entirety or in partConceived in dialogue with the temporal, spatial, and structural conventions of a gallery exhibition, 'Mother Has Arrived' begins the moment that the gallery opens to the public and is timed to finish when the gallery closes, and the Mother arrivesIt is written, designed and directed by Than Hussein Clark and produced by The Director's Theatre Writer's Theatre
The actors made a special trip to the US to meet Martha in person to support their research'Exeter' is played by Lewis Blomfield, and 'Essex' by Benedict WishartThe prosthetic makeup artist is Aurora BeadleDramaturgy is by Laura Schuller, and the performance is supported by Voice Specialist Joe Windley, with movement direction by Luis Odriozola, and wardrobe supervision by Scout Kauffman
Performance Schedule: 15 public performances, between 11.00am and 5.30pm
Thursday 4 September - Premiere (between 2.00pm and 8.30pm) Friday 5 September Saturday 6 September
Thursday 11 September Friday 12 September Saturday 13 September
Thursday 18 September Friday 19 September Saturday 20 September
Thursday 25 September Friday 26 September Saturday 27 September
Wednesday 1 October Thursday 2 October Friday 3 October
Artist: Than Hussein Clark
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